Daily Nous - Page 273 of 374 - News for & about the philosophy profession

Skip to content

Twitter
Facebook
Bluesky
Instagram

RSS

Search

News for & about the philosophy profession

About
Comments Policy
Online Events
Philosophy Comics
CFP
Heap of Links
Supporters

Audi Wins APA’s 2016 Quinn Prize

Robert Audi, the John A. O’Brien Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, has been named the winner of the American Philosophical Association’s 2016…

November 29, 2016
Best Non-Philosophy Books for Philosophers 2015-2016

The website Five Books asks Nigel Warburton, whom many readers will know as part of the Philosophy Bites crew, to pick and discuss his favorite philosophy books…

November 29, 2016
The Anti-Authoritarian Academic Code of Conduct (updated)

{Originally published on November 29th, 2016. Pinned-to the top again temporarily. There will be nationwide protests in the US this Saturday, October 18th, 2025;…

November 29, 2016
Philosophers Against Malaria: Get Your Department Involved

A group of philosophy graduate students at Rutgers University have set up an inter-department competitive fundraiser for the Against Malaria Foundation (AMF). The fundraiser starts…

November 28, 2016
Post-Election Changes To Philosophy Curriculum By Subject: Philosophy of Mind

This post continues our series soliciting suggestions for reading materials and lessons for various philosophical subfields in light of Donald Trump’s victory in the recent…

November 28, 2016
A Useful Philosophical Quirk

Every once in a while I read something that brings to the fore both how strange analytic philosophy can be and how useful it…

November 28, 2016
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

Welcome to the last week of November. Here’s the weekly report on what’s new at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy(SEP), Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP), Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (NDPR), and Wi-Phi, plus…

November 28, 2016
Happy Thanksgiving

In 1975, Ethics published “Gratitude” by Fred Berger, a philosopher at UC Davis. He opens the essay with the following:

November 24, 2016
26 New Blogging Awards and 2 Article Awards

Ethics blog PEA Soup, in cooperation with the Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics at Depauw University, has announced that it will be offering 26…

November 23, 2016
Philosophers on the Professor Watchlist (Updated)

The “Professor Watchlist” is a website listing professors who someone has thought “discriminate against conservative students and advance leftist propaganda in the classroom.” The…

November 23, 2016
Chaospet (Daily Nous Philosophy Comics)

Chaospet by Ryan Lake

November 22, 2016
Post-Election Changes To Philosophy Curriculum By Subject: Philosophy of Religion

We continue our series of suggestions for reading materials and lessons for various philosophical subfields in light of Donald Trump’s victory in the recent…

November 22, 2016
A Neglected Philosophical Pessimist — For Our Times?

The following is a guest post* by [an author who requested his name be removed from this post after ceasing to be involved in…

November 22, 2016
Four Philosophers Win Prestigious Grants in Australia

Four philosophers have been awarded prestigious “Future Fellowships” from the Australian Research Council (ARC)—an “unusually good result” for philosophy, according to Christian Barry (ANU). The…

November 22, 2016
Topical Shifts in Submissions to Ethics Over the Past 6 Years

Ethics: an International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy, one of the discipline’s leading journals, is seeking a new editor-in-chief.

November 21, 2016
Post-Election Changes To Philosophy Curriculum By Subject: Political Philosophy

Last week we began soliciting suggestions for reading materials and lessons for various philosophical subfields in light of Donald Trump’s victory in the recent election.…

November 21, 2016
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

Good morning. Here’s the weekly roundup of what’s new at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy(SEP), Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP), Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (NDPR), and Wi-Phi. If there are links of philosophical…

November 21, 2016
Post-Election Changes To Philosophy Curriculum By Subject: Critical Reasoning / Informal Logic

Continuing in our series of posts about changes to teaching materials and lessons for particular philosophical fields in light of the 2016 U.S. election…

November 18, 2016
On World Philosophy Day: What Else Would You Be Doing?

This Daily Nous item is temporarily unavailable while its historical content completes a security review. The title and publication record are preserved; the original…

November 17, 2016
Post-Election Changes To Philosophy Curriculum By Subject: Language

Yesterday I published the first in a series of posts about subfield-specific changes to philosophy curriculum in light of the 2016 U.S. election. That post…

November 17, 2016

Heap of Links

“The central question would shift from ‘How do we maximize shareholder value?’ to ‘How do different forms of organization distribute power, risk and reward — and which should we strengthen?'” — Chris Marquis on the case for abolishing, or at least radically changing, business schools
Asking “How did I get here?” may help us reflect on the nature of personal identity in ways that asking “Who am I?” cannot — Marya Schechtman's 2024 Central Division Meeting Presidential Address
“Collecting is a game, but what kind of game? It is an imperfect information game of acquisition” — a theory of collecting, from Steven Hales
“A general human tendency: to overestimate how far we have come in the progress of human knowledge” — a lengthy interview with Thomas Nagel
“Many couples do not survive trauma like this” — A profile of Susan Brison—who was brutally attacked in 1990, and who wrote about it in Aftermath—and her husband, Thomas Trezise, who has now written his own book stemming from those events
“Bad AI Consciousness Takes” Bingo Card — Henry Shevlin's area of specialization is becoming a popular topic in popular discourse, and he can't stand the "cavalcade of terrible takes"
Does the principle of sufficient reason imply panpsychism? If it does, do we then ponens or tollens? — Sam Kimpton-Nye on these questions and the "demand for intelligibility"
PTSD flashbacks may be harmful, but they may also be helpfully “resupplying phenomenal experience” to those who, owing to trauma, are “grasp alienated” — Michaela McSweeney on trauma and "madness-as-strategy"
A look at the very first issue of Mind — Brett Mullins surveys its articles on the occasion of the journal's 150th anniversary
The most bizarre plagiarism-related story ever — featuring: a death, an investigator, a dissertation, a mysterious red book, and more
New data on earnings by major and university — though not all universities
“AI poses two different existential threats to [our] valuing practices” — Jordan MacKenzie offers an account of why negative judgments about AI taking over our creative and caring activities are justified
“Submission” is a humorous clicker-style game about starting a career in academic philosophy (or not) — created by Nat Hansen
“The best investment in education is to become the most human human—a challenging, fulfilling, exciting pursuit that connects us across generations” — an interview with Christa Acampora, philosopher and dean of Arts & Sciences at UVA
“What would happen if we tried to live without the mythology of agency at all?” — It's worth pondering, since "agency is just an internal command hallucination," says Alexander Douglas
“Reading List” is a free Mac app for keeping track of papers to read — philosophy PhD student Hayden Kajercline created this productivity tool for researchers, with help from Claude
How should we react to scary predictions about AI? “First: by asking questions” — "If you believe predictions uncritically, it amounts to obeying in advance," says Carissa Véliz
“I feel unbelievably lucky that I was able to make philosophy my profession” — Karen Ng reflects on her path into philosophy, at #first-genphilosophers
The ordinary concept of knowledge “doesn’t work at all the way philosophers said it does” — a round-up of studies shows how weird the philosophers' version of the concept is
1000 or so psychiatrists were asked to diagnose standardized clinical case vignettes. “Two doctors agreed on the diagnosis only 55% of the time” — What does this tell us about psychiatry? Or about other fields in which experts disagree?

Subscribe by Email

Get new Daily Nous posts delivered to your inbox.

Subscription Form

Δ

Archives

Select Month

Latest Comments

Russell Marcus on New: “Why Teach Philosophy?”
I appreciate the sarcasm! One thought, though, that I hope isn't pedantic or humorless: On-line discourse may give us misleading impressions about what most of us philosophers do…
Michel on AI Use in STEM and Philosophy Dissertations
Maybe. The problem is what's going unsaid; presumably you then have to find and read the sources for those ideas, and explain them yourself. If so, then it's…
Jukka on AI Use in STEM and Philosophy Dissertations
I am disturbed by the prevalence in STEM, and heartened by the lag in philosophy. Me too, and I am in STEM. Nowadays, personally, I always put a…
DoctorK on AI Use in STEM and Philosophy Dissertations
Unacceptable*
DoctorK on AI Use in STEM and Philosophy Dissertations
The second to last item is problematic, depending on what suggestions are made and how they are implemented. The other items are either clear academic misconduct or acceptable…
David Wallace on AI Use in STEM and Philosophy Dissertations
I’m not sure we’re in serious disagreement. The really crucial thing about an AI detector is that it doesn’t show false positives, so that if it says “AI”…
Henry Shevlin on The Future Currency of Achievement in Human Philosophy
Pretty confident! I think it's likely that AI will dominate in all analytic philosophy domains by 2030, but the terms of the bet are unreasonably charitable to me…
Daniel Greco on AI Use in STEM and Philosophy Dissertations
I think the caveats you include at the end of your (1) are in some tension with (2). I use Pangram and I think it's quite good; it's…
David Wallace on AI Use in STEM and Philosophy Dissertations
Substitute “Claude” for “your dissertation director”, and not a few PhDs have a form not too different from this. (Which again is my point about implementation being what…
GVAponte on AI Use in STEM and Philosophy Dissertations
How about if Claude dictates a list of interconnected ideas, I write down what I gather, and write a dissertation, all by myself, based on those notes: Am…
Tenured Realist on AI Use in STEM and Philosophy Dissertations
This is a bit off topic from the post but I'm curious to hear what people think of the following scenarios. Would you say the AI use described…
Justin Weinberg on Overwhelming Cheating
Reminder: The comments policy says of LLMs, "please do not submit comments written in whole or in part by these tools."
Nice try on AI Use in STEM and Philosophy Dissertations
"If there is a line, defend it. If there is no line and any AI-generated text invalidates authorship, defend that instead." Have you heard of a false dilemma…
Rosanna Festa on My Crystal Ball
I am a philosopher woman and I have the Crystal Ball.
Animal Symbolicum on New: “Why Teach Philosophy?”
Since everyone knows that the paradigm philosophical achievement is the production of a peer-reviewed article presenting an argument for a claim, the series’ titular question is already answered.…

© Daily Nous

About Daily Nous